Just in time for Swim Suit
Season: MessyWorks Celebrates All Body Types

Comedienne Sarah
Silverman is not known for sensitivity in her jokes, a recent TED
performance about “adopting a retarded baby” is enough proof. But there
is one thing the shock-joker apparently won't touch-- fat-lady jokes.
She told Larry King:"I guess if there is anything I wouldn't talk
about... fat jokes about women. That always bums me out because I feel
like we live in a country where fat women - at least in white America -
don't deserve love. And I don't think that's true for men. You see every
sitcom star is like a fat guy with some gorgeous wife."

"But we
live in a country that really feels that way. And that just makes me
sad to make a joke of it or to make light of it. It tends to be more
mean-spirited."

MessyWorks loves
all funny ladies and their veritable rainbow of body types. Our thing
is that you don't have to be a model to be a MessyWorks girl-- you just
gotta be brave and fun. It is great that Sarah is speaking out but we
also aren't opposed to a little body humor either!

Here are
some choice quotes about bodies, weight and dieting from
star-comediennes:

Kathy
Griffin is always thinking of the needy. After her liposuction
procedure she announced to fans that the fat "was donated to a soup
kitchen."

Riffing on the
typical “my new bikini bod” features in gossip mags, Griffin also
quipped “I am very proud of my two weeks on speed. It was full-on
illegal speed.”

Roseanne
Barr, whose weight prompted a lot of jokes from others said: “It's okay
to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.”

Roseanne also philosophized: “Women should
try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe
the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll
have to be reckoned with.”

Maragret
Cho is no stranger to media-body-scrutiny. And she comes across as
pretty body-positive: "I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when
they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it
is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if
I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great
divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we
are all what we choose."

Cho
also so eloquently said: “The first thing that you lose on a diet is
brain mass.”

MessyWorks
agrees. And to further celebrate our love for all body types, MessyWorks would like to profile one of our all-time favorite comediennes, a
fat-positive, body-positive superstar:

Miss Piggy

When asked what sign she was born under,
Miss Piggy said: “"I wasn't born under a sign, I was born over a sign.
Becker's butcher shop. I moved as soon as I could."According to Frank
Oz, the creator of the Muppets, Miss Piggy's father was a sow-chaser and
her mother pumped out piglet after piglet, never taking the time to
“find herself.” Miss Piggy vowed: “I'll die before I live like that!”
and ran away to the city. According to Oz, “Life was hard at first.
People got all the jobs; pigs had to take what was left. Desperate, she
took a stage name, Laverne, and entered a beauty contest. She won and
got her big break: a bacon commercial.” Miss Piggy never let her size
(or species) pigeon-hole her. Nevertheless, she's been quite opinionated
on questions of looks and weight. Some words of advice from the
celeb-u-pig herself:

“Never eat more
than you can lift.”

“Moi does not
recommend dieting. The only way you can lose weight is the same way you
lose anything - by forgetting where you put it. “

“The object of exercise is to achieve
your beauty aspirations without perspiration.”

And her best kept beauty secret: “We
exercise all the time. We run when we are late for lunch date. We
stretch when we hail a taxi. We twist when we wave our
hand to a friend. We bend if we must examine someone's diamond
ring. All other exercise methods require you to perform difficult
movements which are unnatural and which you will never use in daily
life. Is your mail opened behind your back? Do you lift your leg or
twiddle all your toes to call a waiter? Do you use your knees to turn on
a light?”

Duly noted Miss Piggy,
The MessyWorks girls take your diet and exercise advice to heart.
Around here we like to get our exercise from a swift wind-back of the
hand...you guessed it:

Celebrate your body as is it is today.
MessyWorks thinks you look great. But you just might look a little
better with some pie dripping off.